John Wall Barger, Annie Woodford, Cathryn Hankla - John Wall Barger has published six books of poems and one collection of essays. His new collection,Resurrection Pie,is just out with LSU Press. He’s a contract editor at Frontenac House, lives in Vermont, and teaches at Dartmouth College. -Annie Woodfordis the author ofPeasant(Pulley Press 2025)Bootleg(Groundhog Poetry Press, 2019) andWhere You Come from Is Gone(Mercer UP, 2022), recipient of the 2022 Weatherford Award for Appalachian Poetry. Her micro-chapbook,When God Was a Child was published by Bull City Press in 2023. She studied poetry at Hollins College. - Cathryn Hankla has published sixteen books in multiple genres, including Return to a Certain Region of Consciousness, Immortal Stuff (prose poems), Not Xanadu (poetry), Lost Places: On Losing and Finding Home (a memoir in essays). She has been awarded the James Boatwright III Poetry Prize, a PEN Syndicated Fiction Prize, and a Virginia Commission for the Arts grant in poetry. She is professor emerita of Hollins University.
